Louis Phillips, a widely published poet, playwright and short-story writer, has written 45 books for children and adults. Broadway Play Publishers has published the full-length plays: The Envoi Messages and The Last of the Marx Brothers' Writers. They also published Plays (a collection of comic one acts). Three full-length plays: 16 Points on a Hurricane's Compass, The Ballroom in St. Patrick's Cathedral and Man-o-War were published by Aran Press. Phillips' most recent play publications are Late Night in the Rain Forest, The Death of the Siamese Twins and Other Plays and Gertrude Stein in Dayton and Other Plays (all World Audience, Inc.). He also wrote The Audience Book of Theatre Quotations. Phillips teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.